| Founder(s) | Kate Cooper, Amanda Dennis, Rachel Pimm |
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| Date established | 2007 |
| Location | Peckham, South London |
| Key people | Kate Cooper, Amanda Dennis, Richard John Jones, Rachel Pimm, Aoife Flyn, Theo Cook |
Auto Italia South East is an non-profit Artist-run space, founded in 2007 and co-run by Kate Cooper, Amanda Dennis and Richard John Jones. Currently located on the Old Kent Road Peckham, South London in a donated used car showroom, Auto Italia is both an artist-run project space and a site for exhibitions, events and collaboration. The organisation commissions and produces new work through collaboration with a growing group of artists. in 2011 the Arts Council England added Auto Italia to it's list of National Portfolio Organisations[1] [2]
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In 2010 Auto Italia LIVE was launched in collaboration with LuckyPDF with five, one hour long TV episodes performed and broadcast live over the internet and to a studio audience.[3][4] In September 2011 Auto Italia began a second series of TV shows again performed in front of a live audience and broadcast live online from the space. This series focuses on how television affects expectations and perceptions of culture and public spaces.[5] Artists have been commissioned to produce new work for the shows including soap operas, factual programmes, documentary works, and human and mechanical choreography.[6][7]
Participating artists include Nathan Budzinski, Benedict Drew, Francisco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson, Eddie Peake, Andrew Kerton, Leslie Kulesh, Rachel Pimm, and Lorenzo Tebano.[8]
in 2009 and again in 2010 Auto Italia collaborated with the music promoter and record label collective Upset the Rhythm to curate a weekend festival called Yes Way! The festival brought together artists such as Darren Banks, Justin Jaeckle, and Katie Guggenheim and musicians such Male Bonding, Roseanne Barrr, Lovvers and Graffiti Island.[9]
Il Trasloco is an independent documentary from 1991, which tells the story of the Autonomia (or ‘refusal of work’) movement that began in Italy in the 1960s. Documenting the emptying of the unofficial headquarters of the movement, and narrated by one of its key proponents, Franco Berardi. The translation and subtitling of this film is by Federico Campagna (Through Europe) and Richard John Jones and was commissioned by Auto Italia South East.[10]
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